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Eager, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31602. It stands on Twomile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

Eager within Lowndes County

On record in Eager

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Eager between 1992 and 2020, burning about 830 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 91 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning209
Arson/incendiarism91
Equipment and vehicle use40
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Smoking31
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pebblewood0.3 miles9
Mederer Acres0.6 miles9
Northwood0.7 miles9
Dellwood0.8 miles9
Country Club Estates0.9 miles9
Five Points1.1 miles9
Wood Valley1.3 miles9
Cherokee Plantation1.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346237. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.